the pumpkin caught fire but before he caught fire he looked really cute

his watery flesh prevented the fire spreading very far and it just meant he was a bit scorched inside and there was quite a bit of smoke but apart from that all good.

"He was shown the smallness and tinsel emptiness of the little Earth gods, with their petty, human interests and connections - their hatreds, rages, loves and vanities; their craving for praise and sacrifice and their demands for faiths contrary to reason and nature."

"...it stimulates the part of the brain called "shatners-bassoon", and that's the bit of the brain that deals with...time perception..."